Route: starting from the carpark opposite the Kirkstone Pass Inn and heading straight up the re-engineered path to the top of Red Screes at a brisk walk. Then running down the grassy and occasionally marshy ridge towards Ambleside as far as the Struggle. Taking the left turn, a little further down the the road, on an initially level track which then drops to cross the stream on a bridge and back up the far side of the valley onto the track linking farm cottages. Up this walking and running by turn to near the top of the Struggle and then walking steeply back to the start.
Conditions: warm and sunny. Very heavy queuing traffic from Ings at least as far as Troutbeck Bridge forced a change of plan to start the route at the Kirkstone Pass rather than Ambleside.
Pub: the Hawkshead Brewery, Staveley for WPA and El Dorado.
